Solid Waste Management: Mapping of Temporary Waste Sites and Potential Wild Solid Waste in Ternate City

DOI

10.2991/icst-18.2018.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

solid  waste; temporary disposal sites; wild waste;

Abstract

Garbage is a classical problem faced by all cities in Indonesia. The same problem also found in Ternate due to various aspects including population growth and rapid urbanization, inadequate number of facilities, lack of landfill management systems based on environmentally, and the implementation of reduce, reuse and recycle are not running well. On the other side, the volume of disposal solid waste is increase every day. Meanwhile, the management of solid waste done by community involve burning, throwing to the river or ocean. Those practices raise the potential for wild solid waste everywhere. This research aims to identifying and mapping the location of Temporary Waste Sites (TWS) and wild solid waste location in Ternate City. In addition, this research also tries to provide solutions in order to improve waste management in the city of Ternate. The research data were obtained through direct observation and measurement in the field. Literature study is conducted as supporting data. The collected data will collaborate and processed to build the map using Geographical Information system. The result shows that the high source of solid waste in study area comes from urban settlement, while food leftover are the most waste in composition of solid waste. Moreover, the research found 107 locations of Temporary Waste Sites and 151 location of wild solid waste.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nani Nagu
AU  - Edward Rizky Ahadian
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Solid Waste Management: Mapping of Temporary Waste Sites and Potential Wild Solid Waste in Ternate City
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 398
EP  - 402
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icst-18.2018.83
DO  - 10.2991/icst-18.2018.83
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